East″er‐ling (?), n. [Cf. Sterling.] 1. A native of a country eastward of another; — used, by the English, of traders or others from the coasts of the Baltic.
Merchants of Norway, Denmark,... called... Easterlings because they lie east in respect of us. Holinshed.
2. A piece of money coined in the east by Richard II. of England. Crabb.
3. (Zoöl.) The smew.